WLAN

The WLAN-chip used is a Prism2 / Prism2.5 / Prism3 on an internal USB bus. If
you press Fn+F8 it is like plugging in a USB-WLAN-Stick.

For kernels 2.6

Download the latest version of linux-wlan-ng (at least ver. 0.2.1pre26),
compile and install the prism2_usb module (./Configure; make all; make
install as root).

For kernels 2.4

Download linux-wlan-ng (NB: there can be problems when compiling ver.
0.2.1pre26, in that case use 0.2.1pre25 instead), compile and install the
prism2_usb module (./Configure; make all; make install as root).

Then load the module

modprobe prism2_usb

before activating the WLAN. When
activating the WLAN without having loaded the module I got a kernelpanic with
nice blinkenlights.

To do this automatically at boot-time insert the name of the module into
/etc/modules.

Another possibility to automate the loading of the module is adding the
following line to /etc/modules.conf (usually not necessary):

alias wlan0 prism2_usb

Finally configure the WLAN-settings in the files in /etc/wlan/ which are
commented very well.

The WLAN firmware is not uploaded automatically as when inserting a
PCMCIA-card. Thus it might be necessary to run /etc/init.d/wlan
restart in order to explicitly tell the flybook to upload the firmware
and bring the interface up.

I don't know if this is a general problem with USB-WLAN-sticks or just with the
type used in the flybook. At least I found a solution, perhaps a little - ehm -
creative, but it works ;-)

When using usbmgr:

(with hotplug everything may work out of the box or has to be configured
somewhere in /etc/hotplug/)